PhD and Postdoctoral Positions in Urban Climate, Climate Modeling, and Urban Sustainability at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong

PhD opportunity at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) with Assistant Professor Tao Wang in research areas spanning urban building energy, AI, urban microclimate, and socio-physical modelling. The post invites prospective PhD students interested in topics such as urban microclimate modelling and building energy forecasting, graph neural networks for urban and building systems, human behaviour and energy use, computational approaches to climate adaptation and sustainable cities, and grid resilience...

City University of Hong Kong is advertising a postdoc / research assistant position in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The research themes focus on urban meteorological observations , numerical simulations across meso- to micro-scales , and the mechanisms of vegetation impacts on air pollutants , including processes such as adsorption and interception. This opportunity is especially relevant for candidates interested in Environmental Science , Earth Science , and Civil Engi...

Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Zhang Group is advertising PhD and postdoc openings in Hong Kong focused on urban heat islands , urban climate prediction , and the impacts of extreme heat on cities. The research combines Earth system and climate modeling (including CESM and WRF ) with machine learning to study how vegetation cooling and advanced heat-mitigating materials can reshape urban environments. A major theme is quantifying the real health, energy, and economic costs of extreme urban h...

PhD positions are available at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the Department of Land Surveying and Geospatial Science , working with Prof. Qihao Weng and the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Geomatics (RCAIG). The project focuses on remote sensing , image science , geospatial AI , computer vision , geospatial big data , urban sustainability , urbanization , land/environmental economics , urban and coastal environments , landscape and urban ecology , and carbon cycle and cl...

PhD opportunity in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Regina for Fall 2027 intake . The opening is centered on research in unsaturated soils and mine tailing , with topic options including advanced laboratory testing of unsaturated soils , advanced numerical modeling of unsaturated soils , and characterization and improvement of mine tailing . This is a student-oriented research opening for applicants interested in civil/geotechnical engineering and related earth and environmental top...